Quotes About Book

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

For you, she was a chapter. For her, you were the book.

I can fill a whole book to tell you how I feel about you, but I know you won't understand.

Life is that book that has no beginning or end, just content.

Life is like a book. With every page that turns, something new happens. And each chapter gives you more perspective of what's to come.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

It's painful for me that I wrote a whole book calling into question identity politics, only then to be constituted as a token of lesbian identity. Either people didn't really read the book, or the commodification of identity politics is so strong that whatever you write, even when it's explicitly opposed to that politics, gets taken up by that machinery.

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united "for life and till death.

The most pious King Æthelstan' is how he was described on the first page of the gospel book

The letter survives because it forms the book's preface.)

The king was constantly asking for copies of particular texts, which he put together to form a little book

Mais il y a une chose qui ne changera jamais : c'est l'amour des enfants pour leur mère, et j'ai écrit ce livre pour apprendre aux petite filles comment leurs fils les aimeront un jour...

And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his book comes disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid and more abiding than those that come to us in sleep, why then, for the space of an hour he sets free within us all the joys and sorrows in the world.

the novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;

How much better life seemed to me now that it seemed susceptible of being illuminated, taken out of the shadows, restored from our ceaseless falsification of it to the truth of what it was, in short, realized in a book! How happy the writer of a book like that would be, I thought, what a labour awaited him!

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Indeed, a book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

I intended to make it sound guileless and rather sweet but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism without which no book is worth a fart in hell.